Hi Ron , I have really enjoyed your build,great wood ,brass and painting skills gives us mere mortals (whittlers)something to aim for .seeing the figure reminded me of your other post, when i next pop into work i will see how there getting on with the figures i was getting scaled up and printed from 1/24 to 1/16 and if there ready post some pictures . Almost forgot what are the dimensions of the build ?. Cheers Marky

Been fitting more of the fittings today and have had a little helper today

I really like the job you did on the woodwork.Looks great.Nice job on the rudder too.

The rudder assembly was made using a 200mm prop shaft squared of on the lower 3/4 of the shaft to allow for secure fixing for the rudder made from three layers of 4mm ply.
The rudder was fixed to the shaft using 2ton epoxy and held in place with three pieces of brass strip which are bolted through the rudder
The prop tube bearings were cut of the ends and fixed into the hull for the rudder shaft , I have also installed rubber o rings to insure no water can come in through the rudder posts.

I've started on getting the fittings fitted now the paints dried and also the sail control line has been fitted and tested.i have used 50lb clear carb fishing line for the control wire so it isn't clearly visible.
Last job done today was to fit and test the rudder assembly, all's working as it should👍

Been there done that mate 🙄 more times than I dare admit to.😄
The colours were chosen after researching the original mascotte.

Me too! 👍 Just thought you might have got the rattle cans mixed up 😁
Unusual lower hull colour - but nice 😉

Thanks Doug thought it would be easier to turn the boat upside down to paint it rather than standing on my head 😂

Super job, very smart 👍 if upside-down 😁😉

Thanks Donnieboy it has been 28degrees c here today perfect painting weather.
I can now start assembly while waiting for the glue to dry on the ships boat planking, been that warm on my shed I managed to get two planks each side today . Normally have to wait 12hrs between planks.
Ron

Great job on the paint.Must be nice to be able to paint outside.We're still waiting for the snow to disappear.We are only at 5 degrees.Lovely job.Can't wait to see it finished.

Back to the main hull
Have finally got the hull sprayed today with this heat it has been drying faster than I can spray it on 😄
Firstly the hull was sanded with a 200grit paper to sand of the shiny coating to give the paint something to key too.
It has had three coats of undercoat sanded with 2500grít wet and dry paper between each coat.the undercoat used was Halfords rattle can plastic primer.
Then the lower hull colour was sprayed on again three coats sanded with 2500grit paper between each coat.colour used was Halfords rattle can ford arctic blue.
the top half of the hull was sprayed with two coats only with it being black plus I didn't have enough paint to give it a third coat😋 colour used was Halfords rattle can satin black.
Finally the hull was sprayed with Halfords rattle can clear lacquer three coats sanded with 2500grit paper between each coat.

thanks Donnieboy i have found with this hobby it is one long learning curve always something new to try 😉

You're doing a good job.Huge learning curve.Lots of patience.I enjoy watching the build.

Ships boat continued
It's coming along now almost finished planking the sides just a couple of planks to fit and can then plank the stern.
It's certainly been a learning curve doing my first clinker hull and at this size , there has been a few mistakes but that's modelling .

Ships boat continued
Hi all the planking is coming along slowly have just attached the fourth plank on either side.
Thanks to hammer's excellent clinker build and advice I am starting to get the hang of this.
The only problem I am having at the moment is working out the length of the oars , I have some 5mm square section in walnut I thought of machining down to make the oar shafts but unsure of length as these are not on the plans for the ships boat any advice welcome.

Glad you enjoyed the 6" clinker build. I have made 12 like that 6" smallest 10" largest.

The way you've been going so far I'm sure you will Ron 👍

Thanks hammer very interesting reading I just hope I can get mine looking that good
Ron

Hi hammer, just spent an interesting half hour looking at your blog for the 6" clinker boat. Lovely work 👍 and a useful tutorial. Good stuff!
Any more where that came from? Cheers Doug 😎

You may find my clinker boat method, built as full size. just 6" long. can be seen build blog page 13.

check out yuotube video called. Model Clinker boat building
may help

Good example.Should help a lot.Just take it slow.

Never done it either Ron hence my interest in your progress, fingers crossed ofr yuo (maske ti hrad ot tpye!) 😉
Maybe attached pic helps; LHS clinker, RHS carvel built.
Bon chance mon ami 👍

was wondering that myself Doug being my first attempt at a clinker hull

The bench is so well camouflaged I couldn't find the ribs at first 🤔
Watching with interest to see how you get 'clinkered' up 😉

ships boat planking
well the first 2 planks have been fitted today and things went better than expected, guess that is from making sure everything was squared up yesterday 😎
well that's my excuse and i'm sticking to it 😜

Oldies but goldies 😁

The old ones are the best 😁

There's an old joke in there somewhere "what's that ? (RH picture ) a dead one of these (LH picture)Boom Boom👍Cheers Marky

I had to open my mouth yesterday didn't I 😭 this morning I took of the clamps to file of the excess glue and dropped the frame onto the floor knocking one of the ribs of 💩so I have had to re-glue the rib back on again so will be starting the blanking tomorrow now.i have included a couple of pics of the boat frame before I dropped it.
😱😱

That's correct Doug each plank needs to be shaped and sealed as you go. This will be my first clinker hull and just hoping not to many mistakes happen and don't need to scrap it and start again but that's model building 😵 .
Don't worry Doug I won't be sanding the clinkers out its took me long enough to find out the details of the ships boat as no info in the plans
Ron

Please don't sand off the 'clinkers' 😲
S'pose you'll have to sand n seal each board individually before it goes on 🤔 Knew there was reason I've never tackled clinker build 😉

Judging from what you have done so far the ship's boat will be of the same quality.Excellent work.

Thanks Doug have had to do some more research on the ships boat about the planking and finally discovered that it's a clinker built boat so lots of sanding and shaping to do yet

Looking good👍
Can't wait to see that wood tidied up and varnished 😊

ships boat continued
hi all have spent today knocking up a simple jig to hold the keel and ribs of the ships boat while the glue goes off.
pic 1 & 2 shows the jig set with the keel in place.
pic 3 shows the dry fit test to insure all fits square and true.
pic 4 is all the ribs glued to the keel.
The rig is made up of pieces of ali angle which was a damaged length from when my greenhouse was delivered last year, all i have done is cut 12 pieces approx 10-15mm wide and drilled 1 hole for fixing to the board.
I then marked out the board for where the ribs need to be and fixed two of the brackets for either side of the ribs and used a length of 6x2 beech long enough to be clamped to both angles which was for clamping the ribs too, 1 piece of angle was placed at the front and stern to hold the keel square to the board which is a scrap bit of OSB.
Each rib was dry fitted to the keel for any fine tuning using a set square to insure square and true, once i was happy with the results i dismantled it and refitted glueing the ribs in place again double checking with the set square to check for any movement in the jig.

the ships boat continued
today i have finished cutting out the inner of the ribs with my tungsten rod saw.
these where filed and sanded with 250 grit and 2500 grit sandpaper.
i have dry test fit each of the ribs to be sure of a square true fit before they will be glued.
tomorrow i will be making a jig to hold the keel and ribs while the glue goes of and to keep the frame square till planked.
pic 1 is of the rod saw used
pic 2 is of the ribs after being filed and sanded
pic 3 & 4 is of the dry test fit
Ron

ships boat continued
i have got all the ribs cut out and the outer edge sanded within a couple of mm of the marked edge, leaving the last couple of mm for when they are fixed to the keel.(pic1)
i then marked out and filed out the notch for the fixing point to the keel using my permagrit needle files.(pic2)
finally today i finished with marking out the inner edge of the (pic3) ribs using my makeshift compass using a steel rule as the smooth edge with a couple of wood coffee stirrers as packers (pic4) to get a uniform width for all the ribs held together with a couple of cable ties ready for cutting out and sanding over the weekend.
Ron

I've said it before and will probably say it again; 'Brilliant woodwork' 👍
And an excellent tutorial, 😎

The ships boat continued
The plans of the ships boat is to make it out of paper but I will be using walnut.
I have made and cut out the cardboard templates for the ribs and stenciled them onto a walnut sheet , I cut these out using a coping saw and using permagrit sanding blocks to sand to shape after which I will mark the inner line and cut and final shaping to make the ribs their are 5 ribs in total.

The finished keel for the ships boat after sanding and shaping

Today while waiting for the weather to warm up i have started work on the ships boat which when finished will be 8" in length and a beam of 4". I will be making this using mahogany for the whole boat and the first job was to cut, sand and glue the parts that make up the keel.
this was made using 5mmx3mm mahogany sandwiched between 2 lengths of 10mmx2mm mahogany which when finished will give 5mm square keel.i have always found it easier doing it this way rather than try and bend the wood.

Today I have masked of the boat ready for painting when the weather warms up . Materials used where frog masking tape and some paper packaging that came out of the last delivery box from Amazon.
Firstly I went round taping of all the fidly bits before completely masking the sides of the hull before applying the paper

Not done much today except get some of the fittings and rigging points fix in place while I'm waiting for the weather to warm up so I can get the lower half of the hull painted

Think something went wrong there will try that again

Hi all not much has been done over last few days been on a downer with my health which has left me house bound but I'm starting to pick up again so hopefully can get back to building again.
I have attached the specs and pics of the original mascotte that I have been using to get the detail info from
Ron

Excellant work on all you are doing.I've had to downsize and lose some of my heavier boats.They were tugs also.I had to have an emergency hernia operation and the doctor said to take it easy.Still recovering.Looking forward to more of your posts.

Thanks Ed and Doug for your kind words

I don't know what I would do. if I had to get rid of my collection!
But I'm glad you have found another boat to build!
looking forward to a video of her Maiden Voyage!

Ed